COMPLETE Sr. Product Manager - Technical, AWS Security - Herndon

Job Description

This position may be located in New York (NY), Herndon (VA), Arlington (VA) or Raleigh (NC) and Relocation available.

Amazon is seeking a Senior Product Manager (Technical) to join the Security Management Services organization. Our team is responsible for building a comprehensive security management platform that helps internal customers improve their security state by surfacing security findings and recommending remediation with a seamless customer experience. You will work in an agile team to deliver solutions that will enable AWS product teams to securely deliver the world’s largest cloud platform. Come build with us!

As a Sr. Product Manager on our team, you will be part of a growing team that has a high bar for product/engineer excellence, minimal technical debt, and several new services to build and improve. You will contribute to solving complex engineering problems as well as business problems. A successful candidate will demonstrate proven product management skills with experience understanding customer needs, building roadmaps and launching features that deliver value for large scale enterprise systems. The candidate will be comfortable managing competing priorities and be able to bring clarity and order to ambiguous scenarios. The ideal candidate will have experience delivering services for use by engineers. Exemplary written and verbal communication skills are important, as the candidate will frequently work with leadership and colleagues that cross organizational boundaries.

The Product Manager is responsible for complex medium to large scale security products from initiation through delivery. Your focus is on cross-functional products that serve major parts of the business, are business critical, and may be global in nature. You will also support critical relationships with customers, and negotiate agreements with suppliers or other external partners. Partner teams are often geographically dispersed, so some schedule flexibility may be required.

You can prioritize well, communicate clearly, and have a consistent track record of delivery. You are proactive in removing roadblocks, pave the way for innovation, and can handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. You will be a positive influencer across diverse teams, be able to effectively rally support for your initiatives, and be able to help deeply technical teams create simple solutions to meet your program goals. You are able to handle business escalations with a data-driven approach to build trust with engineers and Senior Leaders.





Key job responsibilities
* Lead workshops with customers to understand their key business challenges
* Manage the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical execution
* You comprehend the product’s customers need and advocate on their behalf, communicating business objectives to team and stakeholders to deliver the best product/feature or system/process with most efficient use of resources and technologies.
* You manage the creation of product/feature prototypes.
* You will write clear and detailed functional specifications based on complex business requirements, and serve as an authority on product issues to business managers, engineers, and other Product managers. Use Amazon’s Working Backwards product development process to define requirements
* Develop user stories, lead planning, and other agile disciplines to help your team iterate and deliver great infrastructure products.
* Use your strong innovative skills to design exciting features to solve our customer’s challenges.
* Help your team invent new approaches and then simplify them to solve really hard business and technical challenges
* Develop and execute multi-year project plans with an impact across Amazon business units to drive security excellence across multiple security domains, such as access control, vulnerability management, and secure software development.
* Lead initiatives aimed at identifying and eliminating security risks for Amazon and its partner teams
* Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels of management, building trust across the organization, and demonstrating discretion with sensitive information
* Be comfortable working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment while driving teams to complete goals
* Demonstrate the ability to break abstract goals into attainable, measurable work items
* Define user experiences and requirements by developing high-quality PR/FAQ’s and effectively prioritize and manage the scope of each product launch to deliver key capabilities on time and on budget

A day in the life
Our team's mission is to define, measure, enable, and evangelize the core enduring principles that raise the security bar across all of Amazon. We build security tooling, services and products that teams across Amazon rely on for standardized reporting, meeting their defined SLAs and most importantly upholding the security standards across all our systems.

About the team
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | Herndon, VA, USA | New York, NY, USA

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience contributing to engineering discussions around technology decisions and strategy related to a product
- Experience managing technical products or online services
- Experience in representing and advocating for a variety of critical customers and stakeholders during executive-level prioritization and planning

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in using analytical tools, such as Tableau, Qlikview, QuickSight
- Experience in building and driving adoption of new tools

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $121,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.